Confessions of one sahm
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Confessions of one sahm
| Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm |
I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my
| Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm |
I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my
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lol!!-Enjoy the rest of your day in your office.
Then WHY the comment you made?
Also, what would someone renting be using as an estimate?
What is funny?
I am working today to prepare for the first day of the summer term tomorrow. I generally do enjoy working, thanks!
You also, have a nice evening-bawwahhhaaa!!!
It would depend on how well I knew the person--if I don't know them well, I would simply express sympathy for their difficulties. If it's someone I know better, I might tell them that I think they're handling a very difficult situation well, or if I thought I'd have trouble handling what they are handling, I might state it. I might not, tho. I mean, it's kind of hard to say because a situation like that isn't something for which a one-size-fits-all answer would ever be appropriate, so how I communicated to that person would be individual to the situation and the person.
When my friend was working 2 full time jobs after her dh was laid off, I would occasionally tell her that I admired how she was dealing with it, while simultaneously wishing I had the magic wand that would fix things so that her dh's cancer would heal, he'd get a great paying job, his former boss would get horrible boils in uncomfy places, and they'd win the lottery so she and he could go cruising for a year and not have to worry about anything but getting back to the ship on time.
I can't tell you if she felt flattered by my words, but I certainly didn't say them so that she WOULD feel flattered, but rather so that she knew I wanted only good things for her and regretted the fact that I couldn't give them to her myself. And I think, since she never took offense at my words (and she and I later went on a cruise after her dh passed), that she understood what I was trying to say.
Like I said, I don't think the fact that you have a fairly easy life, by any means, means you've never been through difficulties or trying times. I guess I just find it hard to understand that because you always seem to be a very "glass half full" person, rather than "glass half empty", yet you seem so determined to deny that you or anyone might have an easy life. And those two attitudes towards life don't seem, to me, to be mutually compatible.
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My home is worth a lot comparatively speaking, and its value is 1/6 of what our financial advisor recommends for funding our retirement accounts if we retire at 62, 1/5 if we retire at 65. If we downsize on retirement, I guess we'd only have to save 4 times our home value for retirement.
How does the value of your home effect your retirement savings if you don't plan to sell?
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